About the Book: The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a
Healthy and Holy Life
Your body is more spiritual than you think.
How can we preach a gospel of peace, yet still find our bodies wracked by
anxiety? How do we call our bodies temples of the Holy Spirit, yet regard
eating, exercise, or sleep as inherently "unspiritual" activities? How is it
that modern Christians who claim God made their bodies have come to care so
little about them?
Justin Whitmel Earley—bestselling author of The Common Rule and Habits of the
Household—is intimately familiar with the consequences of